ABSTRACT
173Chapters 4–9 consist of transcriptions of 31 letters sent by Low to his mentor (Manson) in London. During a fifteen-month period he had thus accumulated a vast amount of factual information. Although he had written several ‘papers’ during his travels, much remained to be submitted for publication, and this chapter concentrates on Low’s published work which emanated from the Caribbean expedition. Although today, the cause and ideal preventive strategies for lymphatic filariasis, malaria and yellow fever are well known to all and sundry, in 1901–02 relevant facts were still at an early and experimental stage, and existing knowledge was geographically localised.
